RE: [Harp-L] Roland Cube You Tube a fake?

["Tom Klingl" <tom.klingl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Billy,

Oops...that was the 'Send' button too soon. Please delete my other mail. 

Once again:

Looking back in the archives of Harp-L the identity of the 'Chinese guy' has
been revealed by Mr. Slim Heilpern almost exactly a year ago (Dec. 13th 2008
to be precise): His name is Maki Yamaguchi and he Japanese ;-) (see also
http://www.harp-l.org/pipermail/harp-l/2008-December/msg00609.html). On the
Roland website you can find his name right next to the image.

http://www.roland.com/demos/en/i0120/index.html

The other demo was localized to be in Kobe Japan, due to our polyglott
Harp-L member Mr. Joe Leone (see
http://groups.google.com/group/harp-l/browse_thread/thread/7f9cbb042a6ae0be/
64befafa4fb18a03?lnk=gst&q=%27street+cube%27#64befafa4fb18a03)
 
http://media.roland.com/en/v/v0660/v066002M.mov

Both of the amps came out fairly recently and are far from being out of
production. I agree that the demo tracks probably have been recorded in a
studio and that the 'old bar' probably has been chosen for its ambiance. But
Maki Yamaguchi is an excellent player and a demo is a demo.

Cheers

Tom (Berne, Switzerland)

-----Original Message-----
From: Billy James [mailto:billyjames@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:16 PM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] Roland Cube You Tube a fake?


The funny thing is this Roland Cube 'You Tube' is a mime!Am I alone in
thinking, the guitar and harmonica playing are recorded in a studio with
tons of reverb added to the sound? I'd suppose the little amplifier sounds
nothing like this example.Do they still even make them?One moment this
Chinese guy is playing  his acoustic guitar out on a park bench, next he's
hunkered down at a bar.Maybe he chugged a couple whiskey shots back at the
bar, looked up to the wall, spotted all those extinct gold vinyl
records.Noticed the recording studio where they were the records were
recorded and hustled on downtown to do his 'Misty' thing on a diatonic
judeing from the size of the harmonica?The question is who is he [maybe he's
quite well known and nearly 50 years old now].Judgeing from the library of
reel to reel revox tapes behind the bar, what time in the early '80's was
this blurry advert shot? By the way I prefer the other Chinese guy playing
his game boy synthesisers through The Roland Cube and wearing his pink
slated sunnies in his bedroom.He talks funny too.